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The Most Effective Tips to Organize a Small Bathroom

Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t bathrooms seem to be one of the spaces we spend the least amount of time in but accumulate the most amount of clutter? It makes sense though…we don’t spend a lot of time in the bathroom but we do use most of our self-care products in there. And if you live in a home with a small bathroom and multiple people sharing it can get disorganized quickly!

For these reasons I have spent a ton of time working on organizing our bathrooms (one of which is quite small). And I’m pumped to share with you what I think are the most effective tips to organize a small bathroom:

1-) Forego excess big items

Calling all towel hoarders! If you have an excess of large items such as towels and bath mats, the best way to organize your bathroom is to discard, repurpose, or donate that excess. If you have a linen closet, all your extra towels should be able to fit on one shelf in it. However, if you don’t have a linen closet, use a rule of two towels per person: one for the bathroom and one extra. Then let each person hold on to their extra towel in their personal space (i.e. bedroom). You’ll be amazed at how much space you create just by getting big items that aren’t used daily out of the bathroom!

2-) Discard expired goods

When is the last time you went through your medicine cabinet and drawers and discarded old medications/makeup/toiletries? If you can’t remember, then you need to do it now!

When you do go through your medicine cabinet, take expired or unused medications to your local police station. Most offer no-questions-asked drop off boxes and will discarded the medications properly. Please don’t throw them in the trash or flush them down the toilet!

On a similar note, if you have extra toiletries then make a pact with yourself to use up what you have before you buy anymore. Whatever you do, don’t hold onto products that didn’t work for you because you feel bad about chucking it! Holding onto it isn’t going to help the problem if it didn’t work for you and you’re not going to use it! Instead, try to find a friend or family member who may use it.

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3-) Narrow down toys

If you have young kids that play with toys in the bathtub, only hold onto the ones they use regularly. For some reason, our Little Grasshopper actually prefers just one toy in the bathtub at a time. However, he LOVES playing with all his bath toys in his play area in the living room. So in our case we decided to move most of his bath toys into his living room play area!

However, if your kids obsess over their bath toys just make sure you find a bath toy organizing system that keeps them contained but also lets them dry out (so you don’t end up with a mold problem).

4-) Hide visual clutter

I’m not sure why people insist on leaving hair dryers, curling irons, flat irons, and hairbrushes on their bathroom counters, but these are huge sources of visual clutter! If you use these items daily, placing them neatly in an easily accessible drawer or basket is a much better way to keep the bathroom organized. Plus guests won’t have to worry about working around hair (or makeup!) products when they need to wash their hands.

5-) Optimize drawer and cabinet storage

I could go to Pinterest right now and find fifty different ways people have improved their under-the-sink storage space. Many have discovered that maximizing that space makes your bathroom feel less cluttered and more organized!

But don’t stop there! Make sure you use your drawers and cabinets in a way that works for you. For example, I don’t use much makeup (I mean, this face is just so beautiful as it is 😉 ), so a makeup drawer isn’t necessary for me. However, I do buy a year supply of daily contacts at a time, and I also have all the supplies that come with them…

So you know what I have? An eye care drawer! Because that’s what makes sense for my needs.

However you decide to organize your drawers and cabinets in the bathroom, make good use of drawer and cabinet organizers! In one of our bathroom drawers we even used a stationary organizer and it works like a charm!

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Comments

I just respect your thoughts but if you have small kids in your family, you can’t maintain these thoroughly. I have two small kids and their favorite place is the bathroom. They love to play with all those accessories store there. If I organised my medicine cabinet now, I must discover a messy one after 30 minute. All I have to find a door lock for my bathroom. I am fade up enough. But I love them so much and that’s my problem…

I appreciate your honesty! One of the things I work hard on at The Modern Nest is to give practical and sustainable advice. That said, if others express the same concerns I will re-evaluate the content and adjust accordingly.

I have a two (almost three) year old and these tips have worked well for us. One thing that concerns me is that you suggested your children can get into your medicine cabinet. Did you mean vanity cabinet? If your kids can reach the medicine cabinet and you have anything that’s dangerous in there (medicines, scissors, etc) you absolutely should find a way to lock it! My toddler can’t reach our medicine cabinet even on a step stool, and we keep a close eye on it.

If the issue is actually the vanity cabinet, my son likes to go and play with the stuff in there too! We keep his bath toys in there along with bath products that are safe (washcloths, certain feminine products, etc). If he makes a huge mess then I have him help clean it up, but most of the time he simply goes in and grabs the bin of bath toys to play with. If he’s in a generally misbehaving mood we do have a child lock to prevent him from going into the bathroom altogether, but most of the time it’s not necessary.

Good luck with whatever you decide, and let me know if you have any questions!

Oh! Amanda, I felt sorry for my mistake. I am also concerned about the medicine cabinet and I wanted to mention my vanity cabinet and the stuffs stored there. I tried a lock for my cabinet but they were so much angry for that and didn’t wanted to eat anything without opened the lock. You just can’t believe on them. I think I was like them too in my childhood. Anyway, thanks for spending your valuable time on me. You are really so cordial and helpful.

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